UN Disability Treaty Online Event
20 October 2021 6 – 7.30pm
Watch live or on demand via YouTube, Facebook and Twitter
BSL interpretation and speech to text
What is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (CRDP), why do we have it and how can Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DDPOs) use it to advance our rights? – all these questions and more will be answered by our panel of experts as the UK gets ready to be examined again by the CRDP Committee.
Panel to include:
- Gertrude Fefoame, current member of the CRDP Committee and Chair of both the Committee’s Working Group on Women and Girls with Disabilities and the Committee’s Task Force for developing a General comment about the right to work and employment (Article 27).
- Catherinne Pedreros Puentes, from the CRDP Secretariat who has supported the CRPD Committee for 9 years as well as working with other UN Committees.
- Tara Flood, UK disabled people’s rights campaigner, involved in drafting the CRDP in 2006.
- Linda Burnip, who gave evidence to the CRDP Committee for their special investigation in 2015.
At the event, the England Shadow Report Project will also launch our call for evidence to feed into the next examination of the UK under the CRDP. Watch to find out how you can get involved.
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Please note that for information about how to get involved in evidence gathering within Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland you should contact Disability Wales, Inclusion Scotland or Disability Action Northern Ireland.
